Christian Group Finds Gay Agenda in Anti-Bullying Day
Yep, it is the 2010s and people still are as bigoted and crazy paranoid as this.
The program, started 11 years ago by the Southern Poverty Law Center and now in more than 2,500 schools, was intended as a way to break up cliques and prevent bullying.
But this year, the American Family Association, a conservative evangelical group, has called the project “a nationwide push to promote the homosexual lifestyle in public schools” and is urging parents to keep their children home from school on Oct. 30, the day most of the schools plan to participate this year.
The charges, raised in an e-mail to supporters earlier this month, have caused a handful of schools to cancel this year’s event and has caught organizers off guard.
“I was surprised that they completely lied about what Mix It Up Day is,” said Maureen Costello, the director of the center’s Teaching Tolerance project, which organizes the program. “It was a cynical, fear-mongering tactic.”
And the article later quotes that mindless evangelical scaremongerer Bryan Fischer, the AFA radio host whose show is basically little more than "GAYS! MUSLIMS! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!" and whose crazy talk is documented and debunked at the Right Wing Watch blog.
These same Christian parents complaining about gay kids in public schools would scoff and laugh at Muslim parents who complained about girls showing their hair and faces. Not that such Muslim parents are commonplace in the US, but it really says something about those Christians. Maybe those Christian parents should either (a) suck it up and realize that the Real World is not dictated by Biblical Values, or (b) homeschool or send their kids to an evangelical Christian school.
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live your life, but to impose and teach it to others, as well. 
It's much easier to coordinate schedules 
What's that? Not that kind of agenda?
Nevermind.
I guess for some, HATE is more important than education. 
that come out to movie theatres.
Funny, I've never heard of that being considered a "virtue" in the Bible............
What really gets me is that it's not o.k. to bully anybody because of their religious beliefs but apparently it's o.k. to bully GLBT people because some people's interpretations of the Bible not only tolerates such bigoted behavior but actually COMMANDS it under the guise of "helping" people overcome their "sin". They fail to take into account that their religion let alone their interpretation thereof is NOT shared by everybody (thankfully) and that we are free to have whatever religion and believe whatever we want to believe (or not believe in anything at all for that matter) in this country.
grrrrrr........
So much for Jesus' "Golden Rule"
